San "Dorothy" Lee was out for a morning walk while listening to some music on her iPod. Shirley Boguski was enjoying the sun while relaxing in a lawn chair at Spring Lake Park.

Now, after a pair of brutal incidents that happened nearly 24 hours apart, both elderly Middlesex County women are dead after they were blind sided by vehicles early on Thursday and Friday , police said.

Lee, a 61-year-old Old Bridge woman, was leaving the track at Carl Sandburg Middle School and crossing Ticetown Road when she was struck by a Honda Accord shortly before 8:30 a.m. yesterday, investigators said. Police have not charged the driver of the vehicle, 57-year-old Donna Sousa, and there are no traffic lights at the intersection where Lee was killed.

Boguski, described as a lifelong 86-year-old South Plainfield resident, was sitting in the parking lot of Spring Lake Park when she was struck by an out-of-control Toyota Corolla around 10 a.m. on Thursday, police said. The driver of the vehicle, 74-year-old Ty Nguyen, told police he had recently taken the car in for maintenance, but the vehicle malfunctioned and raced into Boguski.

She was flown to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick where she died a short time later from "multiple devastating injuries," according to South Plainfield Police Lt. Chuck Seidenburg.

Nguyen’s vehicle was impounded for inspection, according to Seidenburg, but not charges were filed. Calls made to relatives of both victims were not immediately returned.

Police are asking anyone with information about either crash to step forward. Anyone with information about Lee’s death has been asked to contact the Old Bridge Police Department’s traffic safety division at (732) 679-5959. Anyone who witnessed the accident that claimed Boguski’s life should contact South Plainfield Police at (908) 226-7678 or (908) 226-7669.